Our newsletter: 18 December 2025
LNG carriers meet rigorous safety standards
As LNG Canada points out: “LNG shipping has one of the best records in the shipping industry . . . without a single cargo loss since the first commercial cargo was shipped in 1964.”
And it continues: “All LNG carriers adhere to rigorous safety standards and requirements established through years of commercial LNG operations and help ensure the protection of the world’s waterways.”
Yet a scare-balloon launched by opponents of LNG in BC is that there are going to be hundreds of LNG carriers travelling through BC ocean waters.
Capitalizing on concerns about oil tankers, one opposition group sees future LNG carrier traffic along the southern BC coast as potentially numbering “in the realm of 800+ transits a year.”
Eight hundred transits a year? BC Ferries runs more than 185,000 transits a year — and those ferries don’t have tugs helping them to get safely to and from LNG terminals, and don’t have certified BC Coast Pilots on the bridge to keep progress safe.
- Read our blog: https://ow.ly/pXMO50XJ6z5
Think tank welcomes our Karen Ogen
From the Macdonald-Laurier Institute: ‘We are excited to announce that Karen Ogen recently joined MLI as a Senior Fellow!’
The institute is Canada’s leading independent and nationally focused think tank, based in Ottawa. It is also the most cited and quoted think-tank in Canada’s parliament.
It hailed Karen, the CEO of our First Nations Natural Gas Alliance, as “working to advance responsible LNG and natural gas development that prioritizes the environment and First Nations engagement.”
- The announcement: https://ow.ly/VCy850XJ6Mj
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) also carried a video interview with Crystal Smith, former chief councillor of the Haisla Nation, former chair of our Alliance, and now a strategic advisor to the Alliance. Smith was interviewed by Karen Restoule, MLI senior fellow and director of Indigenous affairs.
- Watch it here: https://ow.ly/95ku50XJ6OY
And Crystal Smith won online hugs, support, and praise as she spoke of six months of personal ‘lateral violence’ and ‘hell’ around LNG projects. But now the benefits are coming to her Haisla community.
- Watch the podcast from the Indigenous Resource Network: https://ow.ly/ZIwq50XHVGn
Indigenous clean energy
- Indigenous solar plant powers up in Haida Gwaii: https://ow.ly/Mmcc50XG3jr (Photo above)
- Indigenous-led innovation advances green hydrogen project in Kamloops: https://ow.ly/Ubfw50XIFwS
- Ottawa puts up $4.77 million for Indigenous clean-energy projects in northern Ontario: https://ow.ly/Tp9z50XE5Lo
- Indigenous Services Canada decides a BC solar-farm project by the Upper Nicola Band and Okanagan Nation Alliance “is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.” https://ow.ly/TQ4A50XGZX6
- Five Ontario Nations to work with province as co-owners of massive new power transmission line to northern area: https://ow.ly/ULh950XGZX7
- Hydro-Québec to launch call for wind-power tenders, and signals it will prioritize proposals built in partnership with host communities and First Nations: https://ow.ly/Rc4850XKjCb
ALSO IN THE NEWS
- Canada has enough natural gas to last roughly 160 years — and federal officials say the country is poised to cash in: https://ow.ly/zJiS50XKQNO
- Tourmaline Oil, Canada’s largest natural-gas producer, releases its latest sustainability report: https://ow.ly/gIcp50XHpUm Tourmaline is an affiliate partner of our Alliance: https://ow.ly/M5s350XHGcX
- The Canada Energy Regulator grants a 40-year export licence to the Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project. Find out more: https://ow.ly/Y2K650XGAQw
- Some Gitxsan hereditary chiefs launch a campaign in support of the PRGT pipeline that will feed natural gas to the Nisga’a Nation’s Ksi Lisims LNG project in BC. Watch this video: https://ow.ly/WvNe50XHUw8
- Canadian LNG has about 40% less carbon-intensity than LNG from the US Gulf Coast. Watch the Energy Futures Town Hall: https://lnkd.in/g8unti3g
- It’s time to push Canada’s LNG and energy to Europe, China and India.— Prof. David Detomasi of Queen’s University: https://ow.ly/ZCfs50XGjgS
EVENTS
- Resource Works: Alliance of Resource Communities reception, Jan. 19, Prince George. Register: https://ow.ly/xtBC50XG3rA
- BC Natural Resources Forum, Jan. 20-22, Prince George: https://ow.ly/71Y250Wj0zL
- Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and Scotiabank, Economic Outlook Forum, Jan. 29, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/pIlz50Xf8TW
- Assembly of First Nations, National Natural Resources Forum, Feb. 10-11, Calgary: https://ow.ly/HIG650Xp5v6
- Greater Vancouver Board of Trade/Bennett Jones, energy and natural resources forum, Feb. 19, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/gIBv50Xz9hN
- Canadian Gas Association, CGA Energy Security Summit, March 10-11, Ottawa: https://ow.ly/6FLp50VQu0N
- The Indigenous Forward Summit (West Coast): March 11-12, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/QuVk50Xri0Q
- Nation2Nation Women’s Gathering, April 23-24, Prince George: https://ow.ly/sBxu50XsTSZ
- First Nations Major Projects Coalition, 9th annual conference, April 29-May 1, Toronto: https://ow.ly/baN350Xz7gU
- Public Policy Forum’s Canada Growth Summit, May 7, Toronto: https://ow.ly/ikCs50WGyYr
- The Indigenous Forward Summit (West), May 13-14, Calgary: https://ow.ly/pgku50XrhQ7
- Indigenous Resource Opportunities Conference, June 3-5, Nanaimo: https://ow.ly/lla050Xv9JH
- Global Energy Show Canada, June 9-11, Calgary: https://ow.ly/NnlW50XffWC
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